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Yeti Tandem 3 user manual
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Line system and brakes
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The Yeti Tandem 3 has A, B, C and D line levels, which fork two or three times from the bottom
(riser) to the top (canopy) and which are divided into "Main", "Lower-Middle", "Middle" und "Top"
lines. The individual line levels are connected with one another using the “handshake knot”
(special hoop technology).
With the brake lines, the individual levels are bundled at the end with the main brake line. This
runs through the brake low friction ring (or pulley) attached to the riser and is knotted at the
brake loop of the control handle. There is a mark on the main brake line which allows the control
handle to be correctly positioned.
The main lines are all attached to Maillon quick links. They are fed through special elastic rings
(or plastic clips) and attached to prevent the lines from slipping and to ensure that they sit in the
correct position.
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The brake lines of the Yeti Tandem 3 are set to the length that was used for the EN certi
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cation
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ights. These line lengths have been
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nely tuned by the GIN test pilots, and it should not be
necessary to adjust them.
The brake line length is tuned so that there is slack in the brake lines when the glider is in fully
accelerated
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ight. Therefore, the brakes are quite slack at trim speed, and to take up that slack in
soaring
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ight, it is common to
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y with half a wrap on the brakes and hold the handles on the knot.
However, care should be taken to release the wraps in any extreme situation.
If you do need to make adjustments to suit your harness, body and
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ying style, we strongly
recommend that you test
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y the glider after every 2 cm of adjustment. There should be a
minimum of 10 cm of free brake travel when the glider is
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own hands-off. This prevents the
brakes being applied unintentionally when the speed system is fully engaged. We recommend a
brake line knot for the brake handle attachment as shown in the diagram:
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